Thomas Durand Baker, the Glossary
Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Durand Baker KCB (23 March 1837 – 9 February 1893) was a British army officer, and Quartermaster-General to the Forces.[1]
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24 relations: Adjutant-General (India), Battle of Kandahar (1880), Bengal Army, Bishop's Tawton, British Army, Cheltenham College, Chief of staff, Crimean War, France, General officer commanding, George Greaves (British Army officer), Indian Rebellion of 1857, Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom), Officer (armed forces), Order of the Bath, Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Quartermaster-General to the Forces, Redvers Buller, Robert Biddulph (British Army officer), Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922), Second Anglo-Afghan War, Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855), United Kingdom, William Elles.
- British military personnel of the Third Anglo-Ashanti War
Adjutant-General (India)
The Adjutant-General of the Indian Army is the senior administration officer who reports to the Chief of Army Staff and is also the Colonel of the Corps of Military Police and Judge Advocate General.
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Battle of Kandahar (1880)
The Battle of Kandahar, 1 September 1880, was the last major conflict of the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
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Bengal Army
The Bengal Army was the army of the Bengal Presidency, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire.
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Bishop's Tawton
Bishop's Tawton is a village and civil parish in the North Devon district of Devon, England.
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British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.
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Cheltenham College
Cheltenham College is a public school (fee-charging boarding and day school for pupils aged 13–18) in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
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Chief of staff
The title chief of staff (or head of staff) identifies the leader of a complex organization such as the armed forces, institution, or body of persons and it also may identify a principal staff officer (PSO), who is the coordinator of the supporting staff or a primary aide-de-camp to an important individual, such as a president, or a senior military officer, or leader of a large organization.
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Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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General officer commanding
General officer commanding (GOC) is the usual title given in the armies of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth (and some other nations, such as Ireland) to a general officer who holds a command appointment.
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George Greaves (British Army officer)
General Sir George Richards Greaves (9 November 1831 – 11 April 1922) was a British Army officer. Thomas Durand Baker and George Greaves (British Army officer) are British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and British military personnel of the Third Anglo-Ashanti War.
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Indian Rebellion of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.
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Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)
Lieutenant general (Lt Gen), formerly more commonly lieutenant-general, is a senior rank in the British Army and the Royal Marines.
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Officer (armed forces)
An officer is a person who holds a position of authority as a member of an armed force or uniformed service.
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Order of the Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I on 18 May 1725.
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Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Pau is a commune overlooking the Pyrenees, and prefecture of the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
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Quartermaster-General to the Forces
The Quartermaster-General to the Forces (QMG) is a senior general in the British Army.
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Redvers Buller
General Sir Redvers Henry Buller, (7 December 1839 – 2 June 1908) was a British Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Thomas Durand Baker and Redvers Buller are British military personnel of the Third Anglo-Ashanti War.
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Robert Biddulph (British Army officer)
General Sir Robert Biddulph, (26 August 1835 – 18 November 1918) was a senior British Army officer. Thomas Durand Baker and Robert Biddulph (British Army officer) are British Army personnel of the Crimean War and British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922)
The Royal Irish Regiment, until 1881 the 18th Regiment of Foot, was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, first raised in 1684.
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Second Anglo-Afghan War
The Second Anglo-Afghan War (Dari: جنگ دومافغان و انگلیس, د افغان-انګرېز دويمه جګړه) was a military conflict fought between the British Raj and the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1878 to 1880, when the latter was ruled by Sher Ali Khan of the Barakzai dynasty, the son of former Emir Dost Mohammad Khan.
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Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855)
The Siege of Sevastopol (at the time called in English the Siege of Sebastopol) lasted from October 1854 until September 1855, during the Crimean War.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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William Elles
Lieutenant-General Sir William Kidston Elles (5 May 1837 – 5 August 1896) was a British Army officer. Thomas Durand Baker and William Elles are British Army lieutenant generals, British Army personnel of the Crimean War and British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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See also
British military personnel of the Third Anglo-Ashanti War
- Andrew Wauchope
- Anthony Home
- Arthur Paget (British Army officer)
- Baker Russell
- Charles Burnett (British Army officer)
- Charles Coke
- Edric Gifford, 3rd Baron Gifford
- Edward Woodgate
- Evelyn Wood (British Army officer)
- Francis Farquharson
- Francis Worgan Festing
- Frederick Maurice (British Army officer, born 1841)
- Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley
- Geoffrey Barton
- George Greaves (British Army officer)
- George Pomeroy Colley
- Gilbert Thomas Carter
- Henry Brackenbury
- Henry Prittie, 4th Baron Dunalley
- Israel Harding
- James Kellie-MacCallum
- John Cecil Russell
- John Chetham McLeod
- John Edmund Commerell
- John Hawley Glover
- John Hext
- John McNeill (British Army officer)
- John Plumptre Carr Glyn
- Lewis Bayly (Royal Navy officer)
- Lloyd Mathews
- Luke O'Connor
- Mark Sever Bell
- Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen
- Percy Scott
- Redvers Buller
- Reginald Sartorius
- Robert Home (officer)
- Rowland Mainwaring
- Samuel McGaw
- Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet
- Thomas Bernard Hackett
- Thomas Durand Baker
- William Butler (British Army officer)